Company Profile

Business Overview

-A manufacturer producing a wide range of interior components for automobiles. Conducts planning, development, and production of door trims, roof trims, and other interior trim systems.

-Sales to Nissan accounted for 64.7% of the Company's overall revenue, those to Honda 21.7%. (as of FY ended March 2016)

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Headquartered in Tokyo, MarkLines is a Japanese company listed on the JASDAQ stock exchange. The MarkLines Automotive Industry Portal provides vehicle production and sales information, technology reports, part supplier insights for almost 50,000 suppliers, and much more for companies around the world. Additionally, MarkLines provides an online service for OEMs and suppliers to promote their products. More than 2,100 automotive industry companies from all levels of the supply chain, including OEMs, parts makers, and material suppliers, are currently subscribed to MarkLines' service.

History

Established Ryogoku Plant and started production of wooden door products.

Aug. 1956

Established Shinagawa Plant in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo and moved Ryogoku Plant to Shinagawa.

Dec. 1961

Established Oihama Plant in Yokosuka-city, Kanagawa.

July 1964

Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Apr. 1997

Established Kasai Engineering

May 1997

Established Kasai Mexicana in Leon, Mexico (currently a consolidated subsidiary).

Nov. 1998

Invested in YSM Co., Ltd.

Feb. 1999

Invested in Koto Plastic Kogyo Co., Ltd. (currently KPK Co., Ltd)

Sep. 1999

Shut down the Ashikaga Plant.

Nov. 1999

Established a second plant associated with M-Tex, Inc. in Ohio, USA

Oct. 2000

Established Kasai Support System Co., Ltd. based on a merger between Kasai Logistics, Kasai Service and Kasai Engineering.

Mar. 2001

Kasai Support System Co. Ltd. acquired by APM Co. Ltd.

Mar. 2001

Closed Kasai Hong Kong.

June 2001

Invested 5.2 billion yen to double the production capacity of interior parts of the Ohio plant (USA) from 0.6 in 2001 to 1.2 million units in 2002. Added production was for Honda, Ford and AAAI (Honda/Ford joint venture), Isuzu (SIA). All new transactions except for Honda.

June 2001

Outsourced a portion of design work to meet the increased development of new models. Succeeded in sales promotions to Nissan, Honda, Ford and Isuzu. Will increase the number of out-sourced engineers to almost 100 in order to overcome cost reduction requests from automakers who will be extremely busy developing parts to be installed in new vehicles, from 2002 onwards.